By Jeremy Gordon
on July 21, 2015 at 11:13 a.m. EDT

The 2015 MTV Video Music Awards will take place on Sunday, August 30 at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles. Today, they announced the nominees. Kendrick Lamar leads the field with thirteen nominations, scoring noms for his "Alright" video as well as his work with Taylor Swift ("Bad Blood") and Flying Lotus ("Never Catch Me"). Kanye West, Jack White, Florence and the Machine, Flying Lotus, FKA twigs, Tyler, the Creator, A$AP Rocky, the Weeknd, Fetty Wap, Nicki Minaj, Ariana Grande, Rihanna, Sia, the Chemical Brothers, Skrillex, Diplo, Arctic Monkeys, and Big Sean also picked up nominations.

By Jazz Monroe
on July 16, 2015 at 11:14 a.m. EDT

The short list has been revealed for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize, which honors the best album of the year by a Canadian artist. It is: Drake's If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Tobias Jesso Jr.'s Goon, The New Pornographers' Brill Bruisers, Caribou's Our Love, Alvvays' Alvvays, BADBADNOTGOOD/Ghostface Killah's Sour Soul, Braids' Deep in the Iris, Jennifer Castle's Pink City, Buffy Sainte-Marie's Power in the Blood, and Viet Cong's Viet Cong.

By Jeremy Gordon
on June 16, 2015 at 1:42 p.m. EDT

The long list has been revealed for the 2015 Polaris Music Prize, which honors the best album of the year by a Canadian artist. It includes Drake's If You're Reading This It's Too Late, Tobias Jesso Jr.'s Goon, Caribou's Our Love, The New Pornographers' Brill Bruisers, Alvvays' Alvvays, Death From Above 1979's The Physical World, Braids' Deep in the Iris, Metz's II, BADBADNOTGOOD and Ghostface Killah's Sour Soul, Colin Stetson and Sarah Neufeld's Never the Way She Was, White Lung's Deep Fantasy, Viet Cong's Viet Cong, and Young Guv's Ripe 4 Luv.

By Zoe Camp
on May 17, 2015 at 11:21 p.m. EDT

Photo by Erez Avissar

Kanye West closed out the Billboard Music Awards tonight with a medley of "All Day" and "Black Skinhead". Thanks to the censors (or some other issue with the audio feed), frequent, extended periods of silence proved more attention-grabbing than West's pyrotechnic backdrops—especially by the time the latter track rolled around. Visibility proved an issue as well; he's hard to pick out from all the smoke and sparks. Check out footage of the medley below, and don't worry, there's nothing wrong with your computer.

By Pitchfork
on April 27, 2015 at 10:39 a.m. EDT

By Amy Phillips
on February 25, 2015 at 4:11 p.m. EST

Kanye West performed new track "All Day" at the BRIT Awards tonight. He performed surrounded by a huge crowd of people, clad all in black, as well as a pair of blowtorches. Watch below. He was introduced by his wife, Kim Kardashian West. Update: The song featured Theophilus London and Allan Kingdom. Update 2: The song is produced by French Montana and Velous.

Update 02/28: It's been clarified that the song was produced by West and co-produced by Velous. French Montana brought West the beat.

By Corban Goble
on February 22, 2015 at 11:12 p.m. EST

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Common and John Legend's song "Glory", from the film Selma, has won the Academy Award for Best Original Song. Watch them perform it at the Oscars ceremony below, backed by a full chorus in a recreation of Dr. Martin Luther King's march on Selma, Alabama. Shortly after performing the song to a standing ovation, Common and Legend accepted the award with a speech connecting the struggles of the film with modern conflicts of police brutality, mass incarceration, and voting rights. Watch the speech below as well.

By Corban Goble
on February 22, 2015 at 9:29 p.m. EST

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Tegan and Sara and the Lonely Island's Lego Movie song "Everything Is Awesome" is up for Best Original Song at this year's Academy Awards. Tonight at the Academy Awards ceremony, Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone, Tegan Quin and Sara Quin performed the song amidst a backdrop of colorful legos, joined by cowboys, astronauts, construction workers and one awesome possum. Questlove and Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh both made guest appearances.

By Zoe Camp
on February 9, 2015 at 5:46 a.m. EST

Update, 2/9 6:13 AM EST: Beck has offered his thoughts on the whole situation in an interview with Us Weekly. Turns out he was actually kind of stoked about the whole thing. "I was just so excited he was coming up. He deserves to be on stage as much as anybody," Beck told Us Weekly. "How many great records has he put out in the last five years, right?” Asked about West's comments that Beyoncé should have won, Beck replied, “Absolutely,” adding, "I thought she was going to win. Come on, she's Beyoncé!”

Last night, Beck won the Album of the Year Grammy at the 2015 Grammy Awards for Morning Phase. During Beck's acceptance speech, West ran up on stage (he gave no remarks, and refrained from snatching the mic). In a post-event interview with E!, he explained the reasons why he took action. As suspected previously, the storming was in protest of Beyoncé not winning. "Beck needs to respect artistry and he should have given his award to Beyoncé, and at this point, we tired of it," he explained, later noting that he didn't say anything because "I'm not going to do nothing to to put my daughter at risk". Watch the entire interview below.